Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-20
INTER STATE COMMERCE.
The BIZ Will Pass the House To. Day
With Large MaiOrity-A PleRrO-
Pneumonia Petition.
Texas Delegation Enforced by a New Arr
val-Favorable Report of the House
Claims Committee.
Snecial 10 the Gazette.

Special TO the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Jan. l9.-The inter state
commerce bill will pass tomorrow by 8
heavy vote, and not over fifty votes will
be cast against it. While the absence OF
the father of the bill, Judge Reagan, is
generally regretted. still his presence is
not necessary to secure the passage OF the
measure. No canvass for votes is
needed and the matter is so thoroughly
understood that speeches on the subject
are now hackneyed. To-morrow's sun
will set on the successful termination Of
a measure which has excited national in
terest, and for which no man has labOred
more patiently and zealously than Judge
Reagan.
There is new member Of the Texas
delegation who arrived here this morning,
who is destined to become great f.vorite
with Texans, Judging by the delight eX-
pressed in the house to-day over the ar
rival OF Miss Grain, who arrived at 10
O'Clock this morning.
Robert L. FOard, whose name was sent
to the senate to-day for postmaster at
Columbus, Tex, is one of the workers for
the Democratic party in Texas. As Con-
gressman Miller expressed it, he is q
regular wheel horse in the Democratic
camp. lie was strongly Endorsed by Sen
ators Coke AMI Mayey, Congressman
niller, Judge Moore, and many other
prominent Democrats. The office pays
about $4,000 year, and Mr.. Foard will
10 on ocrapto hla
A petition was presented in the senate
pointed by the Consolidated Cattle Grow
ers' Association representing that farmers
and stockmen are suffering great pecuni-
airy loss from the prevalence of contagi-
Gus pleuro pneumonia in an adjoining
state. The petition says: "Should this
disease find its way into our herds,
we would suffer irreparable loss.
That it will do so unless the
most severe measures are resorted to can
not be questioned" The petitioners ap-
peal to the Iowa representatives to secure
the passage of the Miller pleuro-pneu-
monia bill and conclude the petition as
follows: "Never before have like num-
Der of your constituents been so vitality
interested IN q measure to be brought be-
fore the congress of the United States"
The house claims committee have nsde
a favorable reprt on the bill to settle and
adjust the claims of any state for ex-
penses incurred by it in defense of
the United States, which author
ICES the accounting Officers of
the treasury to audit and report TO con-
gress the costs, charges and expenses
incurred by any state for en-
rolling, subsisting, clothing, crmiug,
equiping, supplying and transporting
United States troops, for aiding in sup
pre- sing the late instruction against the
United States.
,ilroad mail service change: San
Antonio to Corpus Christi, San Antonio
and Arkansas Pass Railway, "a miles,
from January 81 extend service from the
depot of the San Antonio and Arkansas
Pass Railway Company 10 the depot of
the International and Great Northern
Railway Company in San Antonio, Tex
increasing the distance two miles.
Maj. B. F. Pope, surgeon. who was re-
Gently relieved from duty in the surgeon |
generals office, has been ordered to San
Antonio for assignment to station in the
depart men: CT Texas.